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Have just been asked to fill in, at the last minute, as Guest Host for Mary Ann Gould on her Voice of the Voters radio program tonight at 8pm ET (5pm PT).

Please join us as I jump in to host her show as heard on the air on WNJC 1360AM in Philadelphia and South New Jersey (Rush Holt country!), and across the world via this online listening link.

We'll have more details on today's breaking Holt bill information, the Davis amendment, and other late-breaking voting news.

As we're doing this at the last minute, without guests or preparation, we'll be happy to take your calls, questions and thoughts at 856-227-1360. As usual, VoV and BRAD BLOG stalwart John Gideon of VotersUnite.org, a weekly regular on the show, will also be joining us to discuss all the latest!

Please join us, call us, and otherwise consider this an Open thread for use during the show! (Hit the Comments link below, let us know what's on your mind and then hit REFRESH to keep up with the conversation!)

POST-SHOW UPDATE: Thanks for those who tuned in! Apologies to those who had a bad net stream. Apparently we overloaded their stream. Here then is the archived hour, with all of the day's Rush Holt news, and guests Bob Fitrakis, Bruce Funk, Paddy Schaeffer and John Gideon.

Can you explain in detail how Rep. Susan Davis's amendment to the Holt Bill will impact HR811? Do you think it is an improvement and if so, how can citizens play a part in getting it into the Bill for tomorrow's vote? I have called Rep. Slaughter's office and requested it be included.

Wow! Sorry that was choppy on your end folks. We may have overloaded their stream

I'm told the archive will be available tomorrow on the VoV website. If I can get it up here sooner I will.

Didn't get to answer Dorsey's question as thoroughally as I would have liked. But short answer is that, as bad as the Holt bill is, anything that improves is --- should it pass --- can only be a positive.

If Davis' amendment were to be included in the bill, allowing for only one DRE per polling place, I believe the writing would be on the wall for every state and county. If every county had to have a paper ballot system for voters on Election Day, I believe they'd quickly see the silliness of running two different systems at the same time, and would move a lot more quickly to paper.

That's the upside of the amendment, as I see it. Though even if that amendment were included, there are alot of probs with the bill.

But if it's gonna pass, at least let it be as good as it can be. That' my thought anyway.

Thanks for listening in guys! Sorry for the spotty stream, but that part is out of my hands!

JoJ begins to have production problems when his brain starts heating up.

I think progressives have such shitty productions because we're so much less capitalistic than conservatives. We don't maniacally chase the bucks to maniacally fund ideologues to help us continue maniacally chasing bucks like they do.

Here's the deal, every precinct should have a stack of backup paper ballots along with all the voting machines. Many precincts only have two and with the failure rate and paper jams it's pretty good odds that one precinct is going to be screwed for who know how long, and there is always a power outage.

Imagine if CA or somewhere had major rolling blackouts!! It would make FL "butterfly ballot" talk a thing of the past. Maybe all EI should turn on all their A/Cs and heaters and halogen lamps on election day.

But anyways, back to paper ballots, in Ohio the SOS went so far as to say provisional ballots must be on paper ballots, not mixed in electronically.

This means that the precincts in Ohio have to provide these anyways. Technically all someone has to do is refuse to show ID. You could have a revolution and all votes would be on paper ballot. That might also send a nice message to the BOEs about precinct op-scan.